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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Product Canvas |  Business Strategy GAP Analysis |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When product goal and feature scope don't yet fit cleanly together, it creates a shared working picture. It connects need, core features, and assumptions into a solid starting point. | GAP Analysis compares the current state with a target picture and makes the distance manageable. It becomes useful when, ahead of new initiatives, it must become clear which capabilities, processes, or resources are missing. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Canvas, Product Assumptions, Scope Notes | Gap Matrix, Action Plan, Risk Notes | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | CanvasDiscoveryScope | StrategyAnalysisPlanning | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |